He had an instant of extreme fear. Then into his blood like soothing wine flowed this comfort. He said in his heart, “They cannot take the land from me. The labor of my body and the fruit of the fields I have put into that which cannot be taken away. If I had the silver, they would have taken it. If I had bought with the silver to store it, they would have taken it all. I have the land still, and it is mine.”
